PreviousAdobe pushes AIR for Linux out of beta
News The company has brought its integrated runtime environment for Linux up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users [18 Dec 2008]
Will 2008 prove the year the web grew up?
Comment After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dot-com crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Bruce Lawson [09 Dec 2008]
Microsoft launches open-source blogging platform
News Oxite is aimed at developers and not designed to compete with the likes of WordPress or Movable Type, according to the software maker [09 Dec 2008]
Major Python update makes break with past
News Python 3.0 is a major change from the Python 2 series, and the first release that is intentionally backwards-incompatible [04 Dec 2008]
Sun seeks new coders, revenue via JavaFX
Analysis With the launch of JavaFX 1.0, Sun is trying to reclaim Java's strength as a foundation for rich internet applications. But it's no longer the incumbent [04 Dec 2008]
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed [01 Dec 2008]
Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET
Q&A Visual Studio chiefs Jason Zander and Matt Carter set out the company's manifesto for data democracy [21 Nov 2008]
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support [20 Nov 2008]
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
Analysis OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers [18 Nov 2008]
Adobe to bring full Flash to smartphones
News Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the lightweight version, although Flash on the iPhone remains on the wish list [18 Nov 2008]
Qualcomm serves up Brew SDK to developers
News Qualcomm has introduced a software developer kit for its Brew Mobile Platform, bringing Flash and applications to mid-range mobiles [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: Microsoft's new parallel programming toolkit 
Photo Microsoft Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentralized Software Services Toolkit 2008 is a spin-off from its work on robotics. We got a first look at PDC 2008. [11 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF committee
News The body that maintains the OpenDocument Format has formed a committee to promote interoperability [04 Nov 2008]
Microsoft unveils Live Framework
News At the Professional Developers Conference, the software maker unveiled the developer component of Live Mesh [03 Nov 2008]
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The chip company will offer APIs for mobile software development for its Mifare chipsets in the coming months [31 Oct 2008]
Coders to profit as Android Market opens
News With T-Mobile's G1 phone now on sale in the US, Google has opened the Android Market app store, with developers set to receive 70 percent of revenue [23 Oct 2008]
Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Q&A Benoit Schillings, head of tech for Qt Software, talks about Nokia, Mozilla and going deeper than Java [16 Oct 2008]
Symbian wins software-patent ruling
News The company has won the right to patent a piece of accelerator code in the UK, after a High Court ruling found the application did not contravene the UK Patents Act [13 Oct 2008]
Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit
Q&A Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, talks about the effect of the credit crunch on development, and how an individual programmer's weekend project can turn into something much bigger [10 Oct 2008]
RIM releases BlackBerry development tools
News Developers will be able to target the functionality of RIM's latest handsets, including the touchscreen Storm handset, using the updated tools [08 Oct 2008]
